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<B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B>
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<B>Current Version</B>: v3.9.2<BR>
<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.9.1.html>v3.9.1</a><BR>
<B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff">
ftp.remotesensing.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff</A><BR>
<B>Master HTTP Site</B>: <A HREF="http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff">
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff</a> 
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This document describes the changes made to the software between the
<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).  If you don't
find something listed here, then it was not done in this timeframe, or
it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.  The following
information is located here:
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<LI><A HREF="#hightlights">Major Changes</A>
<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
<LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A>
<LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contrib area</A>
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<A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>

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	<li> Fixes a number of bugs present in the 3.9.1 release.

        <li> OJPEG support updated to work with IJG JPEG 7 release.

        <li> Tiffcrop validated for most TIFF storage subformats and sample depths.

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<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>

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	<li> x86_64 now uses the same default fill order as i386.

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<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>

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	<li> Writing tags with an array value of type TIFF_DOUBLE now
	returns correct error status. The TIFFTAG_SMINSAMPLEVALUE and
	TIFFTAG_SMAXSAMPLEVALUE tags failed to write without this fix.

	<li> OJPEG decoder now works with IJG JPEG 7.  Resolves "Bug
	2090 - OJPEG crash with libjpeg v7".
	http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2090

	<li> Eliminate most GCC "dereferencing type-punned pointer"
	warnings.

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<A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>

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        <li> New tiffcrop from Richard Nolde.  Major updates to add
        significant functionality for reading and writing tile based
        images with bit depths not a multiple of 8 which cannot be
        handled by tiffcp.

        <li> Allow building tools with GCC using the "-Wformat
        -Werror=format-security" flags.

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<A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>

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	<li> None

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Last updated $Date: 2009-11-04 17:38:13 $.

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